leap year

Summary

leap year is a type of calendar year^[1]. It ranks in the top 6% of type_of_calendar_year entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,659 views/month).^[2]

Key Facts

• leap year's image is recorded as Calendar-leapyeardate.jpg^[3].
• leap year's instance of is recorded as type of calendar year^[4].
• leap year's measured physical quantity is recorded as duration^[5].
• leap year's GND ID is recorded as 4125672-4^[6].
• leap year's subclass of is recorded as calendar year^[7].
• leap year's part of is recorded as Julian calendar^[8].
• leap year's part of is recorded as Gregorian calendar^[9].
• leap year's Commons category is recorded as Leap years^[10].
• leap year's opposite of is recorded as common year^[11].
• leap year's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/04jx5^[12].
• leap year's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Leap years^[13].
• leap year's Commons gallery is recorded as Leap year^[14].
• leap year's OmegaWiki Defined Meaning is recorded as 428434^[15].
• leap year's Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID is recorded as 0159356^[16].
• leap year's described by source is recorded as Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)^[17].
• leap year's described by source is recorded as Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary^[18].
• leap year's described by source is recorded as Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition^[19].
• leap year's National Library of Latvia ID is recorded as 000345153^[20].
• leap year's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as science/leap-year-calendar^[21].
• leap year's Stack Exchange tag is recorded as https://stackoverflow.com/tags/leap-year^[22].
• leap year's has characteristic is recorded as February 29^[23].
• leap year's duration is recorded as {'unit': 'Q573', 'amount': '+366'}^[24].
• leap year's duration is recorded as {'unit': 'Q25235', 'amount': '+8784'}^[25].
• leap year's duration is recorded as {'unit': 'Q7727', 'amount': '+527040'}^[26].
• leap year's duration is recorded as {'unit': 'Q11574', 'amount': '+31622400'}^[27].

Why It Matters

leap year ranks in the top 6% of type_of_calendar_year entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,659 views/month).^[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.^[28] It is known by 43 alternative names across languages and contexts.^[29]